Rattlesnakes

His favorite stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the parapet of a skyscraper -- on the lee side, mind you, so that if he blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A studio-lit person waist deep in rattlesnakes juggling flaming chainsaws is allowed to look off axis if they must. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The populace might be blind or dumb, the "rattlesnakes" -- the ❋ John Nichol (1863)

Closely related to the rattlesnakes are the true moccasins, of which there are two species, one being the cotton-mouth or water-moccasin ❋ Unknown (1896)

The rattlesnakes are the companions of the sorcerers and watch to meet them and then talk with them. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

There were two men called rattlesnakes, their bodies naked and curiously painted, resembling that reptile; each holding a rattle in one hand and a bunch of wild sage in the other. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The place is known as the rattlesnakes 'den to this day, though there are none there now, I believe. ❋ Unknown (1854)

The rattlesnakes were the most dangerous creatures. ❋ Joseph Barker (1840)

He likes places exposed, with natural predators such as rattlesnakes and bears and bobcats. ❋ Gardner, Lisa (2003)

While monsoon season brings much-needed rain to the Valley of the Sun, it also brings dangerous critters such as rattlesnakes, said Dr. Michael Levine, a toxicologist at Banner ❋ Unknown (2010)

A: I doubt if a compost pile per se anywhere in the United States would attract any snakes that could be harmful (such as rattlesnakes, copperheads or cottonmouths). ❋ Unknown (2010)

He called predator priests "rattlesnakes" in need of their own segregated island, but added that even a remote island seemed too good. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition to poisonous snakes such as rattlesnakes and copperheads, his research covered brown recluse spiders - which are common in Arkansas and his home state of Oklahoma, but little studied. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The place is known as the rattlesnakes 'den to this day, though there are none there now, I believe. " ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

kurt, chris and i are supposed to see the lloyd cole and the commotions' 20th anniversary/commemoration of the release of "rattlesnakes" gig sheesh. a little longer there, lloyd? october 15th, hammersmith apollo, london, england, uk, the world. i have the tickets to the gig, but not for london. ❋ Santos. (2004)

o 'her eyes; and folks used to say she rattled them necklaces o' rattlesnakes 'tails and wild-cat teeth, and sich like heathen trumpery, and looked for all the world as if the spirit of the old Sarpent himself was in her. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

Rising temperatures are likely to shift the ranges of both aquatic and terrestrial animals -- at a rate of 430 meters per year, in the case of rattlesnakes and voles. ❋ Christopher Mims (2010)